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J. P. SMITH. WINDOW BEAD PASTENER.

Patented June 11, 1895.

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JOSEPH P. SMITH, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOHN C. LONG, OF SAME PLACE.

WINDOW-.BEAD FASTEN ER.

SPEGIFiGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 540,700, dated June 11, 1895.

Application filed December 19, 1894. Serial No. 532,295. (No model.) I

.To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH P. SMITH,'a citizen of the United States, residing at Hartford, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and use-' ful Improvements in Window-Bead Sockets, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to the class of devices that are used to permit of an adjustable fas' tening to the case or frame of a window of the beads or similar strips which hold the sash in place, whereby the beads can be readily removed for taking out the sash or adjusted so that the sash will open and close easily, or they may be adjusted'to prevent rattling and to prevent the entrance of dust, dirt and drafts of air around the sash; and the object of the invention is to provide a simple, cheap and marketable article of this class which can be easily and quickly placed tightly and permanently in position without any liability of splitting the wood of the strip into which it is driven and without danger of itsturning around and working loose or pulling through the strip or of causing the strip to 'split and crack after use should the wood swell or shrink when wet or under atmospheric changes.

To this end the invention resides in a window bead socket consisting of a hollow cylindrical body provided with projecting tapering wings and with a slotted diaphragm that divides the interior into an outer socket and an'inner socket, the side walls of the outer socket having more metal and less elasticity than the reduced walls of-the inner socket, as more particularly hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a plan of the device. Fig. 2 is a central section of the same. Fig. 3 is asimilar section taken at right angles tothe section of Fig. 2, and Fig. 4 is a central section of a modified form of the device.

The exterior walls of the cylindrical body of the article which can be cast or stamped to shape of iron, brass, bronze or any other ornamental metal, are usually made with a very slight taper so the article can be driven into a straight perforation bored through the strip of wood by any common bit or auger even if the perforation is not of an exact size.

In the-interior of the metal cylindrical body is an integral diaphragm 1 located so asto form an inner and an outersocket. The diaphragm is far enough in from the outer edge of the cylinder to leave a socket 2 deeper than the head of the screw which is to be used to hold the bead in place so no portion of the screw head will project beyond the outer surface of the socket when placed in position in the strip, and the diaphragm is out from the inner edge far enough to leave a socket 3 in the inner end of the cylindrical body. The diaphragm has an oblong slot 4 of about the width of the diameter of the shank of the holding screw but long enough to permit the head to be adjusted'toward and from the sash when the holding screw that passes through the slot is loosened, the slot extending transversely of the bead or across the grain of the wood when the socket is in position.

The walls of the inner edge of the cylindrical body are made somewhat thinner than the wallsof the outer edge so that they will be more yielding and conform more readily to any irregularity in the perforation bored through the strip for the socket, and it is preferred to taper the walls of the inner socket enough to accomplish this and also to sharpen them so that they will cut away any splinters or parti cles of the wood that may be left by the tool when the hole is bored, and thus allow the socket to be easily driven in place. This elasticity or yielding of the inner part of the cylindrical body or the walls of the socket 3 may be provided by cutting away the walls of the inner socket so as to leave fingers 5 or portions of the wall that will be more or less elastic and that when the socket is driven in place will conform to any irregularity of the hole bored and will also yield a little should the size or shape of the opening through the strip change under atmospheric influences by the wetting ordrying of the wood.

On the exterior walls of the cylindrical body flush with the outer surface and formed diametrically opposite at right angles with the length of the slot through the diaphragm are small V-shaped wings 6 that taper from the face to the body. These wings are easily driven into the wood in line with the grain so they will not split or crack the wood, as the The above described socket is simple, cheap 3 and easily placed so as to be tightly and permanently held in position in a straight bored perforation in any window head. The outer face is ornamental and stiff, it does not change shape and the desired adjustment of the head can be readily and quickly made. The diaphragm across the center of the hollow cylindrical body divides the interior so as to provide the outer fastening-screw head-socket and provide the surface for the inneredge of the head of the screw, and the inner socket, the walls of which are yielding or elastic enough to bind or hold tightly against the walls of any straight bored perforation through a strip without danger of splitting or cracking the wood if the size of the hole or its shape changes under the in fiuence of the atmosphere EQCWOU or other causes, and this yielding, or the inner part, of the socket fits into and holds tightly against the walls of the perforation if it is not perfectly bored out, but the rigid outer portion of the socket always retains its shape.

I claim as my invention- A window bead fastener consisting of a hollow cylindrical body provided with two V- shaped tapering wings projecting outward from diametricallyopposite sides of the body, and an integral diaphragm dividing the interior of the body into two sockets, the side walls of the inner socket being cut, away to render them more yielding than the side walls of the outer socket, said dividing diaphragm having plane upper and lower surfaces and an oblong slot that extends at right angles to the V-shaped tapering wings, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH 1. SMITH.

Witnesses:

H. R. WILLIAMS, E. J. HYDE. 

